Last night, with the completion of the Strength trump I finished my first attempt at illustrating a tarot deck. I started this project thirty-nine months ago in the hope of illustrating the set of haikus I had done the previous summer. Along the way, I’ve learned lots of very cool photos-shop tricks, created a lot of art (and have even sold some of it!!!) and had quite a good time. Now I present all seventy-eight (the picture below links to the gallery… click on any of the pictures to see full-size. Thanks to my family and so many of my friends here and on facebook who have encouraged this project.
Over the next month or so, I intend to put finishing touches on several of the cards, redo a few of them and write both prose and poetry about the cards. My end goal is still to publish the set in both deck and book form.
As ever I look forward to hearing your feedback.
Blessings, G

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Crystalline delivered, and the final video included two days of shooting – one at Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill and one at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square – and some quick editing to put together a cute, engaging video and hype people up for the 2011 Conference!

The clients were wildly pleased. In the words of our contact, upon showing the video to the rest of the APGA decision-makers: “Quite frankly, I am getting tired of hearing the following: ‘It’s great, excellent work, better than the [example] video, perfect, love it, awesome, does exactly what we wanted, etc, etc. ‘ Thanks again to you all for the phenomenal job.”

Crystalline was contacted on Tuesday by a new client called Global Holdings. Turns out they had a convention in Manhattan on Saturday at which they were to showcase their retail merchandise for franchises like Nintendo, Twilight, and the new Alice in Wonderland.

They had all the assets, video and stills, and simply needed some post-production to help create a flashy display for their booth at the convention. Having done this sort of work for pharma companies and non-profits alike, we were happy to oblige.

I have to say, it’s nice to have clients who are web-saavy. In what may have been the quickest turnaround in recent memory, Crystalline received links to all the assets online on Wednesday and Thursday, downloaded, edited, added motion, music, titles and effects, rendered, and had a final file back up on the client’s site by Friday evening at 8:00pm.

We’d show the video here (I know that’s been the trend), but some of the assets are licensed from other companies for in-house display only, so a lot of it is not allowed for third-party web use or public consumption. Shame, ’cause we love us some Mario.

Anyway, Global Holdings had no revisions to request. So they are now the proud owners of a shiny 16:9, high-res video to help show off their latest wares at the convention today. As for us, the video left us wanting a plush Koopa Troopa or a 5″ Shy Guy to call our own.

Oh well. Another job done, another happy client. All in a day’s work for Crystalline.

Time to start the weekend off right: with some Mario Kart.

Because of Sinatti’s unique musical style, we decided to fill his logo with the energy and excitement of the club scene, and used Sinatti’s upcoming track “Kiss the Sky” for the audio baseline. We were once again reminded how great it is to collaborate with fellow artists, when Sinatti (himself a music producer) gave us an instrumental-only mix of his track to even better effect.

You be the judge!

As an added bonus, we are also providing layers of files, giving the option for the client to alpha matte something into the clip’s opening. So that instead of fading from black or crossfading as the default, Sinatti’s people can simply explode video of their choice straight into the logo, adding an extra layer of production values.

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This was truly a fun project, and is a great example of what we can do for small business owners across the region. Not all our clients have the budgets of SEPTA or Longwood Gardens, and we understand that. Just because your video won’t have helicopter shots doesn’t mean it can’t still be flashy and engaging.

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Our video aims to show equipment vendors how current customer Payment techniques work, so that they can help SEPTA as it upgrades to its New Fare Payment system.

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